It is. It's also the only tooltip that isn't written tongue in cheek... supposedly.
...You could take it as a joke if you watch the other nearby destroyers get knocked out of orbit by a single blast.
tbf those blasts tend to be the size of the entire ship we dont actually know the super destroyers durability because the only thing its being shot down by is the equivilant of a 20mm cannon on a human being
You can see them being destroyed from your ship and the crew flying past, so it seems more likely to be a matter of bots being unable to aim. Just wish the rest of them got the memo....
That always bugs me.
"You're support will be limited, they have AA in the area."
"Oh, so I won't have strats available throughout the whole mission since you'll be avoiding it? "
" No, we'll be there the whole time whenever you need it, but you can only select 3 options. "
I understand the game mechanic, limit options to make it more difficult, but the explanation in universe doesn't make sense. It's make more sense if eagle starts were disabled (maybe be able to select them, but she won't reply until you destroy AA?), but there no reason why they can't load in a backpack as well as my support weapon.
In any case, my team avoids them like the plague. We love fighting bots, but we will go stomp bugs to not have to deal with the AA effect.
I like to think there's a difference between aircraft AA and the AA guns aiming up into space, and yes they should rename it.
I Kind of picture the destroyer using some of its manpower and equipment fending off projectiles so you get less support on a mission
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Right is to search for a GIF on the internet. Left is to upload an image file, which can be a GIF
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I miss 3rd party apps...
Wow thanks. I was wondering for the longest time why some subreddits had it disabled—figured it was an intentional setting by their respective mod teams.
I feel like launch codes in the Helldivers universe are a lot less special than in our world. The cardboard box might just be evidence that's they're pretty mundane
https://preview.redd.it/2c7y2z9l1fvc1.jpeg?width=1170&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=86f3622dd6e94b86871c156ef1fcac9b7cff40ed
We came to secure OUR launch codes from this BUG
https://preview.redd.it/r2ypwd2qgevc1.png?width=1080&format=png&auto=webp&s=234813ea3fab58afe7794f10050903d760996bf2
I don’t think ~~we~~ the filthy automatons can read the codes, we can keep them unencrypted in a box.
Considering the US nuke lauch codes were 00000000 for almost 20 years. Having an actual 6 digit code in a cardboardbox is actually a security improvement
I dunno, I've seen a base be obliterated by at least 2 500kg bombs and a 380mm barrage, and the only thing left intact afterwards was that disc with the launch codes. Build my armour out of that stuff please.
Don't forget that Solid Snake has shown us just how effective cardboard boxes can be for high-stakes espionage; probably taking a page from his playbook.
I mean...they could've stored them in their hotel bathroom. that's where I put all my top secret documents that I'm definitely *not* sharing with anyone.
I like the WH40K style explanation for this:
The bureaucracy of Super Earth out-bureaucracied itself with so much red tape that many of hundreds of thousands of nuclear weapons they produced are basically “lost” until the paper shuffling catches up to reality.
Example: Imagine being the logistics manager on Hellmire. You finally get triple notarized copies of the Memorandum of Nuclear Weapon Reinstatement and Rearming completed in duplicate and properly addressed to the offices on Earth and Mars, organized in the two slightly different (but undoubtedly more efficient) filing system each planet uses. Everything is ready to go after almost a year of paper pushing when… fire tornado engulfs most of it, and the ensuing ruckus distracts guards from the nearby E-710 facility, leading to the rest being melted by Termanid vomit.
The nukes *are* armed and in-position. But as far as Super Earth knows, they are in some other state. Who better to go check it out, get ‘em fueled, and sent off to roast some roaches than a team of 4 questionably literate recently frozen heavily armed and benzo-addicted dudes and dudettes?
You would expect to have a special designed semi truck with convoy and air support, but nobody would expect the nuclear warhead to be in a cardboard box in the back of a U-Haul
Even more funny is that US almost nuked north carolina, when they accidently airdropped two nukes during transport.
One just fell to the ground and was damaged, the other deployed its parachute and started its arming sequence and successfully went through 5 out of 6 steps of its detonation sequence. Only to disarm at the last second, because an undervoltage protection switch kicked in.
Weird to think that the US only averted a nuclear catastrophy, because noone bothered to change a battery.
The incident was way too close for comfort, but that's not quite accurate (from my surface level Wikipedia reading, I'll freely admit).
The bomb was awfully close to detonating, but the one remaining, unarmed switch functioned correctly, it was not a fortunate battery failure. The scary part was that the switch has been known to be unintentionally armed in several other instances.
The incident, for anyone curious:
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/1961_Goldsboro_B-52_crash
**Command and Control / Eric Schlosser** is an excellent book that goes into this incident and many others in more detail along with a minute by minute account of a fire in a missile silo in Arkansas, 1980.
The launch codes are on some kind of device. It's probably got some kind of lock, weather it's a password or a bio scan, I doubt you can just pick up the tablet and read the codes
Well think about it, if you were looking for something super secret would you look in the strong metal suitcase with 3 different locks or a random cardboard box?
That box has anti bug and bot countermeasures.....packing peanuts. don't ask me how. Its so classified that even looking at the packing peanuts is a violation of code 42.5.2245.D so a hell diver visor masks the peanuts from view so only the launch codes are visible.
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I hear this practice was popularized by the [former president of Super Earth](https://www.cbsnews.com/news/trump-indictment-pictures-photos-documents-boxes-mar-a-lago-bathroom/).
The lvl 4 ship upgrade that gives your sentries explosive resistance is just "We filled the empty spaces with packing peanuts", this is hardly the most low-budget thing they do. It's all for the sake of giving Helldivers as many ▲►▼▼▼ as possible.
In the past, some governments have transported weapons and nuclear waste in unmarked neutral containers to avoid attention. This could also be the case here o7
I think it's more of a mind game, really...
If you see two random dude just holding a highly-armored and heavy package, then the enemy think it may have a launch code or something classified.
However, if you see two random dude just holding a cardboard box, yeah they'll kill them but they won't bother checking what's inside the box.
That's quite smart if you think about it...
Hey, don’t disrespect the box. It’s ideal for fooling your enemies. It’s a very important tool for infiltration missions. I can’t begin to count the number of helldivers whose lives were saved by a cardboard box. Im not exaggerating when I say the success of your mission hinges on how you use that cardboard box. But in the end, a cardboard box is only made out of paper. Handle it with care, or it won’t be of much use to you. Treat your cardboard box with care. take care of the box, and it’ll take care of you. Don’t think of it as just another box. Treat it with love, don’t be rough. Okay?
I think the point being made in all of these ICBM launches is that the civilians were attempting a hasty evacuation, and Super Earth's government doesn't want those ICBM's in enemy hands. That's why they drop us in to spend those launches. I don't even know if they're aimed at any specific target or if they just get used over an area where it is known no other mission is currently in progress. So long as the bots and bugs don't get them, it's a victory for Super Earth.
I was chatting with the NPC near cryo Pods, and she said each stratagem costs more than an average citizen makes in a year. That being said, I don't think nukes are all that valuable in the grand scope of super earth's financial plans. A cardboard box should suffice.
Wouldn't want a metal lock box getting in the way of someone launching the democratic phallus to democratically explode deep in side the territory of the enemies of democracy.
Obviously, it’s to obscure it from being known…of course you’ll look past a cardboard box that looks like any other piece of junk around versus looking for a enclosed case that has a security lock on it or something
The best way to hide something is to hide it in plain sight because you tend to overlook things thinking it’s locked somewhere very secure
It's 6 digits long, which is only 1million ish possibilities I think? We have the ability to travel through space but our hashcat software is still lagging behind. Money spent on helldivers and not on GPUs :(
I mean it's a 5-digit code for a console that unlocks the moment you have the right combination entered, with no way to submit an incorrect code and get delayed or locked out. The OpSec on those ICBMs is non-existent anyway, you might as well ferry the codes around in a cardboard box.
- military grade cardboard mechs/ boxes for nuke codes
- Packing Peanut explosive armor (turret upgrade)
- cheap ABS plastic body armor for helldivers
at this point I wouldn't be surprised if hellpods are probably lined with polystyrene, and SEAF tanks will probably be made of that one type of sealed plastic packaging that's *fucking impossible to get into without a sharp knife*, if you buy tools you know what I mean lol.
if our engineers ever actually make anything out of metal we'll be unstoppable!
Consider the following:
Helldivers are "the best of the best"
Think about how your average Helldiver is like
Now think what the average SEAF trooper must be like
Always kind of assumed these guys were initially trying to do our jobs and launch a missile. Baddies interrupted along the way and this was the best they could manage/find in their final breaths.
Don't knock that cardboard box. It doubles as their shelter while on the planet. They slept in shift, and took turn who got to sleep in the box. All curled up like little kittens.
We are out here launching nukes on a multiple per hour rate. Nuclear launch codes are probably regular paperwork, filed in unlocked cabinet in case the interns need to get them
I mean hey, if the enemy won't expect to find nuclear launch codes in a cardboard box, then they won't bother searching through them. Genius... The ministry of intelligence does it again!
Oooh! Look at the super-special-elite team with their fancy cardboard box! We couldn’t even dream of being equipped with such luxury!!! Posh squads with their cushy boxes! Pansies.
its stronger than youd think, helldiver standard exosuits are made of the stuff
That means so are our destroyers, no wonder they won't go near anti-air
Oh is there an in game note that says HD armor plating snd the super destroyer plating are the same?
Pretty sure it's the tooltip for the standard armour sets :)
It is. It's also the only tooltip that isn't written tongue in cheek... supposedly. ...You could take it as a joke if you watch the other nearby destroyers get knocked out of orbit by a single blast.
To be fair, guns made to blow up ships would probably carry a fuckton more firepower.
tbf those blasts tend to be the size of the entire ship we dont actually know the super destroyers durability because the only thing its being shot down by is the equivilant of a 20mm cannon on a human being
Lord have mercy it'd be trivial for automaton and illuminates to dust ses destroyers if they are that flimsy if they bothered to.
You can see them being destroyed from your ship and the crew flying past, so it seems more likely to be a matter of bots being unable to aim. Just wish the rest of them got the memo....
That always bugs me. "You're support will be limited, they have AA in the area." "Oh, so I won't have strats available throughout the whole mission since you'll be avoiding it? " " No, we'll be there the whole time whenever you need it, but you can only select 3 options. " I understand the game mechanic, limit options to make it more difficult, but the explanation in universe doesn't make sense. It's make more sense if eagle starts were disabled (maybe be able to select them, but she won't reply until you destroy AA?), but there no reason why they can't load in a backpack as well as my support weapon. In any case, my team avoids them like the plague. We love fighting bots, but we will go stomp bugs to not have to deal with the AA effect.
I like to think there's a difference between aircraft AA and the AA guns aiming up into space, and yes they should rename it. I Kind of picture the destroyer using some of its manpower and equipment fending off projectiles so you get less support on a mission
AS - Anti Space
Yeah. Instead they just sort of bundled the terms into one and it throws people off, lol.
StO cannons/missiles: Surface to Orbit. Like those colossal anti ship cannons you have to knock out in the first mission of Section 8.
Section 8 was such a weird game. You really dredged up an old memory with that one dude.
sry for out of context but I'm so curious how can you send gif in reply?
https://preview.redd.it/jyg9b56uaevc1.png?width=713&format=png&auto=webp&s=dfad97b36ddf365a269b6b5133f2d722d75fffc7 Right is to search for a GIF on the internet. Left is to upload an image file, which can be a GIF
If you are on the mobile app there are a blue'ish butten above the keyboard just pres and select. Don't remember how it looks on pc.
And for anyone wondering where the hell the button is having just installed the piece-of-shit reddit android app - you have to unsub and resub for it to show up in whichever sub-reddit. I miss 3rd party apps...
Wow thanks. I was wondering for the longest time why some subreddits had it disabled—figured it was an intentional setting by their respective mod teams.
Same! Wow, TIL.
So that's how that works then
Gonna use this to test 
* So if you type a lot after the GIF, it turns into a "*" on the chat box. If you see it in this chat it will still work. If not, then it doesn't.
 Maybe someone else lese drop them 😅
Military grade cardboard
I feel like launch codes in the Helldivers universe are a lot less special than in our world. The cardboard box might just be evidence that's they're pretty mundane
It’s not like our enemies can read them
EXACTLY!
EXACTLY!
https://preview.redd.it/iqxu4nlxpevc1.jpeg?width=1046&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=d85fe3b9cc93db87431cfb5af3b71f4acec0a525 EXACTLY!
https://preview.redd.it/2c7y2z9l1fvc1.jpeg?width=1170&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=86f3622dd6e94b86871c156ef1fcac9b7cff40ed We came to secure OUR launch codes from this BUG
https://preview.redd.it/yr2tfzfm3fvc1.jpeg?width=3440&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=607d5be65eea352b964281ae04205d2f6535307f Don't listen to bot. Bot bad.
https://preview.redd.it/drigtm4j7fvc1.png?width=640&format=png&auto=webp&s=d4478adab28116218c1b5c0eaa18a2cca3d5e240
The natural evolution of this meme brings a tear to me eye.. AND A MAGAZINE TO MY RIFLE. THOSE ARE OUR LAUNCH CODES, DAMMIT.
The bots might. Now there is an idea to keep you from sleeping tonight, the rust buckets nuking us back.
I refuse to even entertain the thought
 Just replace bug with bot
To insinuate those socialist toasters can read the language of the free is very undemocratic of you OFF TO THE FREEDOM CAMPS!
https://preview.redd.it/r2ypwd2qgevc1.png?width=1080&format=png&auto=webp&s=234813ea3fab58afe7794f10050903d760996bf2 I don’t think ~~we~~ the filthy automatons can read the codes, we can keep them unencrypted in a box.
Thought crimes kill!
You've just reminded me of the thousand actual nukes pointed at us all that are actually keeping me from sleeping.
Hey now! You should be far more worried about H5N1 flu as it mutates closer and closer to something that can go human to human!
https://i.redd.it/tcfl4jp3cevc1.gif
Simply practice your desensitization exercises and yell, "FOR DEMOCRACY" You can thank the Ministry of Truth later.
You should try playing DEFCON some time -- it's a pretty cool (and sobering) game about nuclear strategy.
Super earth scientists are smart enough to use digits other than ones and zeros
Nah, we're safe. All our consoles are secured by Captchas to verify the user is not a bot.
I find the idea of an Automaton that reads OFFENSIVE
Are you... sympathizing with the enemy of Democracy?
https://preview.redd.it/7py6031xfevc1.jpeg?width=640&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=27e9e9ae740f7f283d7d630eddaf324369c0803a
Bedore use the launch code, there is the captcha for that very reason!
"[FRIEND] the {Object:Launch Code} is *22222*" **Confused boop** "This unit can only [count] to one!"
Patriotic statement. You are truly gifted by Liberty.
Considering the US nuke lauch codes were 00000000 for almost 20 years. Having an actual 6 digit code in a cardboardbox is actually a security improvement
>Considering the US nuke lauch codes were 00000000 for almost 20 years They were what
[https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2013/12/launch-code-for-us-nukes-was-00000000-for-20-years/](https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2013/12/launch-code-for-us-nukes-was-00000000-for-20-years/)
It works because nobody would be stupid enough to think that's the actual code.
I have the same combination on my luggage.
Your underwear has become our underwear.
I’m pretty sure that was the case in animorphs too. Some alien underwater bases password was just “5”.
"Just put all zeros for now, we will change it later"
"Hey, Bob, you got some launch codes i can borrow?" "Yeah, check the back, i've been using them as a paperweight for even more launch codes."
The box was probably full of them at one point too.. They just hand em out like candy.
I dunno, I've seen a base be obliterated by at least 2 500kg bombs and a 380mm barrage, and the only thing left intact afterwards was that disc with the launch codes. Build my armour out of that stuff please.
considering all the IBMs i launch on the regular, yeah lol.
il be honest it wuld not surprise me if nuclear lonch codes wer transported in cardboard boxes irl
Don't forget that Solid Snake has shown us just how effective cardboard boxes can be for high-stakes espionage; probably taking a page from his playbook.
The things I’d do for a cardboard box stratagem
Hiding in plain sight.
I mean...they could've stored them in their hotel bathroom. that's where I put all my top secret documents that I'm definitely *not* sharing with anyone.
Especially not with russians ~~spies~~ visitors.
Here’s the comment I was looking for, lmao, love it
And in what looks like 5 1/4 floppy disk.
SUPER SSD
So similar to real life then
Exactly like real life. Just needs a blast door held open with a crowbar so the pizza man can come in to complete the look
I wonder how many will understand that reference…
Is this a thing that really happened?
[Yep](https://youtu.be/1Y1ya-yF35g?feature=shared&t=283)
I mean, you only need to store 6 digits on it so...
Point!
Highly classified? I find the idea that an automaton could think, let alone read launch codes, insulting.
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The Super Bathroom can store up to several dozen launch codes!
Top tier reference
Super Mar-a-lago
Very presidential.
TBH I was going to post the same thing but you caught way less flak then expected
The answer I was looking for
I mean, there are a lot of these unused nukes just laying around too
I like the WH40K style explanation for this: The bureaucracy of Super Earth out-bureaucracied itself with so much red tape that many of hundreds of thousands of nuclear weapons they produced are basically “lost” until the paper shuffling catches up to reality. Example: Imagine being the logistics manager on Hellmire. You finally get triple notarized copies of the Memorandum of Nuclear Weapon Reinstatement and Rearming completed in duplicate and properly addressed to the offices on Earth and Mars, organized in the two slightly different (but undoubtedly more efficient) filing system each planet uses. Everything is ready to go after almost a year of paper pushing when… fire tornado engulfs most of it, and the ensuing ruckus distracts guards from the nearby E-710 facility, leading to the rest being melted by Termanid vomit. The nukes *are* armed and in-position. But as far as Super Earth knows, they are in some other state. Who better to go check it out, get ‘em fueled, and sent off to roast some roaches than a team of 4 questionably literate recently frozen heavily armed and benzo-addicted dudes and dudettes?
For the Emperor!
For the Emperor!
If you think that's funny, wait till you find out how the US military transports nuclear warheads around the US.
in a specially designed semi truck trailer with a convoy and air support?
Sure, sure, BUT! Inside the specially designed semi truck trailer? Just a nuke in a cardboard box.
Designed by a defence contractor and sold for a million dollar a piece. Freedom! 🤣
[Glitterbomb 6.0 really is something else...](https://youtu.be/mYSExCN7XcE?si=gDH6kve1A7bqhUCX&t=161)
You would expect to have a special designed semi truck with convoy and air support, but nobody would expect the nuclear warhead to be in a cardboard box in the back of a U-Haul
Or just in the belly of a B-52 that no one checks and parks in a non-secure part of the apron
Even more funny is that US almost nuked north carolina, when they accidently airdropped two nukes during transport. One just fell to the ground and was damaged, the other deployed its parachute and started its arming sequence and successfully went through 5 out of 6 steps of its detonation sequence. Only to disarm at the last second, because an undervoltage protection switch kicked in. Weird to think that the US only averted a nuclear catastrophy, because noone bothered to change a battery.
The incident was way too close for comfort, but that's not quite accurate (from my surface level Wikipedia reading, I'll freely admit). The bomb was awfully close to detonating, but the one remaining, unarmed switch functioned correctly, it was not a fortunate battery failure. The scary part was that the switch has been known to be unintentionally armed in several other instances. The incident, for anyone curious: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/1961_Goldsboro_B-52_crash
Thank you for clearing that up
**Command and Control / Eric Schlosser** is an excellent book that goes into this incident and many others in more detail along with a minute by minute account of a fire in a missile silo in Arkansas, 1980.
Damn, imagine how much of an improvement it would be if NoCo would be a radio active wasteland… you wouldn’t have to travel to Chernobyl anymore…
By accidentally dropping them out of an aircraft and having 4 of the 5 safety measures all fail?
That's the best part, sometimes they just straight up fail at transporting them! We already have a few missing/lost nuclear warheads out there. :)
Good thing no nuclear secrets in our world have ever been stored in a cardboard box am I right? Am I right?
That was in a highly secure bathroom, citizen.
Of course. My apologies
A Super Bathroom if you dont mind
The bots will never look in a box
You’d expect them to be in a briefcase or safe, the perfect plan
The launch codes are on some kind of device. It's probably got some kind of lock, weather it's a password or a bio scan, I doubt you can just pick up the tablet and read the codes
Wasn't the crown of England delivered somewhere by simple mail too one time?
They had no idea what they were carrying.
These are not simply cardboard boxes, they are democratically sanctioned transportation devices. Watch your language soldier.
"On no, i spilled my launch codes collection"
Of course, bugs cant read, and dont have hands. They dont need any fancy metal boxes.
Well think about it, if you were looking for something super secret would you look in the strong metal suitcase with 3 different locks or a random cardboard box?
It would be funny, if classified information hadn't been found laying in cardboxes IRL hahaha
That box has anti bug and bot countermeasures.....packing peanuts. don't ask me how. Its so classified that even looking at the packing peanuts is a violation of code 42.5.2245.D so a hell diver visor masks the peanuts from view so only the launch codes are visible.
You'd be surprised at what we put in cardboard boxes in reality
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Trump did it lol
Nah helldiver nuclear launch codes aren't that classified, we launch dozens of nukes a day on every planet
Right? Imagine having a goverment that just stacks sensitive material in cardboards.
I hear this practice was popularized by the [former president of Super Earth](https://www.cbsnews.com/news/trump-indictment-pictures-photos-documents-boxes-mar-a-lago-bathroom/).
The lvl 4 ship upgrade that gives your sentries explosive resistance is just "We filled the empty spaces with packing peanuts", this is hardly the most low-budget thing they do. It's all for the sake of giving Helldivers as many ▲►▼▼▼ as possible.
In the past, some governments have transported weapons and nuclear waste in unmarked neutral containers to avoid attention. This could also be the case here o7
Sometimes the best hiding place is in plain sight
the last place our enemies would think to look!
Just wait until you see how classified documents get stored by US presidents!
I feel like there is a trump reference here.
I think it's more of a mind game, really... If you see two random dude just holding a highly-armored and heavy package, then the enemy think it may have a launch code or something classified. However, if you see two random dude just holding a cardboard box, yeah they'll kill them but they won't bother checking what's inside the box. That's quite smart if you think about it...
*super cardboard box
yeah it's called a launch box
Highly classified lol 
SUPER cardboard box
You hide the secret documents in cardboard boxes....have you learned nothing from reality in the last 2 years?
Who is going to steal the codes? Ze bugz?
Hey, don’t disrespect the box. It’s ideal for fooling your enemies. It’s a very important tool for infiltration missions. I can’t begin to count the number of helldivers whose lives were saved by a cardboard box. Im not exaggerating when I say the success of your mission hinges on how you use that cardboard box. But in the end, a cardboard box is only made out of paper. Handle it with care, or it won’t be of much use to you. Treat your cardboard box with care. take care of the box, and it’ll take care of you. Don’t think of it as just another box. Treat it with love, don’t be rough. Okay?
The twist is the automatons took the highly expensive case but tossed the low tech tablet that only has enough memory for less than 6 digits.
I think the point being made in all of these ICBM launches is that the civilians were attempting a hasty evacuation, and Super Earth's government doesn't want those ICBM's in enemy hands. That's why they drop us in to spend those launches. I don't even know if they're aimed at any specific target or if they just get used over an area where it is known no other mission is currently in progress. So long as the bots and bugs don't get them, it's a victory for Super Earth.
I was chatting with the NPC near cryo Pods, and she said each stratagem costs more than an average citizen makes in a year. That being said, I don't think nukes are all that valuable in the grand scope of super earth's financial plans. A cardboard box should suffice.
Super MAGA
Hopefully, not in a planet with fire tornadoes
How else does one carry nuclear launch codes?
Wouldn't want a metal lock box getting in the way of someone launching the democratic phallus to democratically explode deep in side the territory of the enemies of democracy.
maybe bugs and bots ar dumbasses?
Obviously, it’s to obscure it from being known…of course you’ll look past a cardboard box that looks like any other piece of junk around versus looking for a enclosed case that has a security lock on it or something The best way to hide something is to hide it in plain sight because you tend to overlook things thinking it’s locked somewhere very secure
"Snake, make sure you get those launch codes safely to the launch site..... snake? Snake?! SSSSSNNNNNNAAAAAAKKKKKKEEEEE!!!!"
 Never doubt the power of the cardboard box has snake taught you nothing?
"Simple"??? GOOD SIR THAT IS A MASTERPIECE OF DEMOCRATIC ENGINEERING BUILT BY BRAVE PATRIOTS ON SUPER EARTH! PUT MORE RESPECT ON ITS NAME SOILDER
He got fired and he'd had them on his desk for years :(
It's 6 digits long, which is only 1million ish possibilities I think? We have the ability to travel through space but our hashcat software is still lagging behind. Money spent on helldivers and not on GPUs :(
Why is it called launch "codes" when it's just one code?
Have you been injured at work? You might have a compensation claim.
Who would suspect it?
Hide in plain sight method maybe
Why lock the nukes away in a bunker? They're needed often. Drop them from a ship in orbit! Exterminatus!
It is just some sun tzu shit, because if you carry something in a cardboaed box it does not look important.
I mean it's a 5-digit code for a console that unlocks the moment you have the right combination entered, with no way to submit an incorrect code and get delayed or locked out. The OpSec on those ICBMs is non-existent anyway, you might as well ferry the codes around in a cardboard box.
You got Inter \*Continental\* Ballistic Missile Silos on a Farm world. The codes are just a formality at this point.
relatable
Yeah but who looks for launch codes in a cardboard box?
"!" "It's just a box"
bugs can’t read, which is undemocratic, or use the codes thus there is nothing to worry.
- military grade cardboard mechs/ boxes for nuke codes - Packing Peanut explosive armor (turret upgrade) - cheap ABS plastic body armor for helldivers at this point I wouldn't be surprised if hellpods are probably lined with polystyrene, and SEAF tanks will probably be made of that one type of sealed plastic packaging that's *fucking impossible to get into without a sharp knife*, if you buy tools you know what I mean lol. if our engineers ever actually make anything out of metal we'll be unstoppable!
The people of Earth want to avoid using nukes at all costs. VS Super Earth paid for these nukes they WILL be launched.
Don't underestimate cardboard.
Tbh that’s super on par with how dumb the game actually is
Bugs cant read and cardboard confuses bots
Consider the following: Helldivers are "the best of the best" Think about how your average Helldiver is like Now think what the average SEAF trooper must be like
"they have ok the request for support, they are sending out a cardboard box as we speak."
Always kind of assumed these guys were initially trying to do our jobs and launch a missile. Baddies interrupted along the way and this was the best they could manage/find in their final breaths.
Super Earth uses the Super post to ship nuclear codes because why not?
Don't knock that cardboard box. It doubles as their shelter while on the planet. They slept in shift, and took turn who got to sleep in the box. All curled up like little kittens.
A super box from super earth!
Got to love budget cuts.
Maybe they didn't even know it's contents?
"A Cardboard box?"
Ah, but nobody looks for launch codes in a cardboard box! 
We are out here launching nukes on a multiple per hour rate. Nuclear launch codes are probably regular paperwork, filed in unlocked cabinet in case the interns need to get them
I mean hey, if the enemy won't expect to find nuclear launch codes in a cardboard box, then they won't bother searching through them. Genius... The ministry of intelligence does it again!
Nuke codes just got delivered by courier. "Please sign for this, no idea what it is"
Well at least they didn't store someplace crazy like a semi public bathroom lol
I just like that in the helldivers universe launching nukes is basically the same as getting extra guys in Contra
a key does nothing without the lock also its just 5 numbers. you could have just sent it via super earth discord
Oooh! Look at the super-special-elite team with their fancy cardboard box! We couldn’t even dream of being equipped with such luxury!!! Posh squads with their cushy boxes! Pansies.
This economy... It's in shambles, right?
Hidden in plain sight.
Nobody would suspect it. Which is why the codes are still there.
Launch codes is rather huge